Dear PHP List,

PHP 5, Apache2, MySQL 5, running on Ubuntu, viewing & deving with
FireFox and Konqueror (Linux).

I am building a site with multiple tools and want to pass variables
throughout them all. Before, I was passing variables using <hidden> HTML
Form tags, but the site has grown too large for this tactic, so I went to
using $_SESSION. However, when I started using $_SESSION, my site loads 3-5
times slower then before. A page that queried MySQL and built itself in 3-5
seconds was now taking 15-20. While more has changed then just $_SESSION,
it is really the only significant difference.

Is $_SESSION slowing down my site? Is there a faster alternative to
global variables then using $_SESSION? Are using regular cookies faster?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Scott

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Scott Campbell
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."

"Courage is resistance to fear .. not absence of fear."